History of the War in South Africa 1899-1902 V. 1 (of 4)

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words a sentence
11.3
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Its punctuation fingerprint: each mark's share, on the same scale as every book on the shelf.

Its punctuation twin, the closest fingerprint on the shelf: Leyte, M. Hamlin Cannon. More twins

Great Britain. War Office on the shelf

2 books by Great Britain. War Office are on the shelf. Its fingerprint is the 2nd closest of the 2 to their average. Of the 623 other authors on the shelf, Great Britain. War Office's punctuation is closest to François duc de La Rochefoucauld's.

Great Britain. War Office's average fingerprint

Marks per 1,000 words, except words per sentence and dialogue (the share of words inside quotation marks).
This bookGreat Britain. War Office's averageEvery book's median
Semicolons4.43.47.2
Commas97.976.176.6
Colons7.04.21.6
Exclamation marks0.00.02.8
Question marks0.00.13.7
Words per sentence11.312.317.0
Dialogue5%4%22%

Every mark in reading order, left to right, top to bottom. Sentence endings are pink.

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